[whatwg] Comments on Web Forms 2.0 Working Draft

[Dean Edwards]

Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Dean Edwards wrote:
> 
>>to clarify this. does this mean that a control must constantly maintain
>>it's "public" validity property? or that it should keep a "public" and
>>"private" validity? where CSS settings are determined by the "private"
>>value.
> 
> 
> Validity affects the following things:
> 
>   * All the time: whether ":invalid" matches the control
> 
>   * On DOM request: the value of the "validity" DOM attribute and its
>     related DOM attributes like "validationMessage".
> 
>   * On submission: whether or not to report a problem.
> 
> Off-hand I can't think of anything that is affected by the validation
> stuff,. Does that answer your question?
> 
clear as crystal. to support the css3 ":invalid" pseudo class a form 
control must constantly maintain it's validity state.
-dean